08-17-2024, 04:24 PM
(08-17-2024, 01:41 PM)LundLefty Wrote: Three weeks, three reservoirs, fishing primarily for Smallmouth. Early AM launch as the bite really slows when the sun gets high.
Echo - Tons (ok, ounces) of bass, but all dinks. Only one over 10". Trout were easy after the SMB slowed. Just drag cranks on the thermocline, about 40' down (clip weights). No walleye.
Rockport - Again, lots of dink bass and perch. But we caught several around 14". Kept 3 for dinner. Cloudy, so the morning bite lasted longer. They were full of crawdads. There were some guys filleting, by their count, 125 little perch at the cleaning station. Looked like a helluva lot of work for those silver dollar sized fillets.
This last Thursday we hit East Canyon. Not as many dinks, but a lot of healthy 10 inchers. Kept three 14" inchers. Again, full of crawdads. Lake was literally deserted until about 9am, maybe 3 boats total.
These crawdad-fed fish are extremely tasty, even better than the WB walleye.
Thanks for the reports, we sure don't get many bass fishing reports, glad you got out and had some good success, even if a lot of them were smaller, tugs are tugs. Did you try for any trout or kokers at EC? I'm just wondering if anyone has been catching and kokes there this year.